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DAE feel like DuckDuckGo is now just as good as google for the vast majority of searches? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Not because DDG got better, but just because google got worse.

google is still better for site-specific searches, and google scholar still has minimal AI slop

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[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The killer for me has to be that it doesn't support searching for phrases within websites I need. Latest example: github. I can be on the project page, copy a phrase from the code and search ddg with it in double quotemarks, and get 0 results. Copy - google.com - paste - enter - loads of results.

Also the search function broke for about a day, a few days ago

[–] flux@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's a bit surprising, given DDG uses Bing, Bing is Microsoft and Microsoft owns Github.

Did you try the same search with Bing, or have an example to share?

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 14 hours ago

I'm on it, I'll do a test based on your suggestions

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

To be honest with you, I didn't even know that was a feature. (Unless I'm misunderstanding you.) Sounds cool!

If I need to search a website, I use either Ctrl+F or the site: search engine operator.

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, I'm so glad that operators like site: and before: are supported. Necessary for weeding out a few bad results aha

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, I'm still salty that Google and most other search engines have cut out some of the boolean operators over the last decade or so.